big yippee of the day: academic triumph

i actually went to a professor's office hours today and i got some great and helpful insight into my project for the class. for all you IS kids...i got some ERD help. :) i also had a midterm for classics 101, a vocab-type class and i kicked butt on it...at least i think i did. i felt i had the latin stems and meanings committed to memory. i feel like the dad from my big fat greek wedding who was always taking words back to their greek origins...except i can do it in latin, yahoo!

and remember that spanish drama class i'm in? the one where i just thought it was soooo hard? well, turns out, it's not so bad. i even contributed in class today. we're reading a play by lope de vega called fuente ovejuna, which is a place/city in spain. the essence is that there's this commander (aka dictator) guy who is the big villain. we were reading a short scene between him and another character, Laurencia. basically...he was trying to put the moves on her and not in a smooth way; he very forcefully commanding her to obey him in whatever capacity he wanted. so anyway, he says like four lines and those four lines happen to be a metaphor. anywho, we were working in small groups of three people and i called the prof over because i wanted to run a thought by him, and he just happened to find that thought to be very very interesting. i think i was preening. :D and to top it off, my classmate mauricio told me it was a very profound thought - and it only matters because he's like a smartie, which caused to me to continue the bask in the praise of my peers. ok...i think my esteem is high enough now.

ok...and the last highlight to my day was the Bible study with steph lin. so...it's not a small group, since it's just me and her. anyway, i think it went really well! we chatted and got to know each other and did all that typical get-to-know-each-other thing and shared some prayer requests and prayed. oh...and did an overview of what we'd be studying together, which is the book of Esther...great book. y'all should read it. i'm thinking after we're done, we should rent the veggietales version of it. :D